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After Macalester

Macalester Economics graduates, as in previous years, have chosen to pursue a broad range of post graduate study and career paths. Here are just a few recent examples:

2008 -

  • Aaron Block (Seattle, WA) has accepted a position at Gridpoint in Washington DC.
  • Nagi Otgonshar (Khovd, Mongolia) has accepted a position at Interstate Equities Corp in Los Altos, CA.
  • Jonas Hiltrop (Doetlingen, Germany) has accepted a position at Cornerstone Research in Boston.
  • Varun Dutt (Bombay, India) has accepted a position at CitiGroup in Singapore: Venelin Tsonev (Rousse, Bulgaria) and Elad Rachevsky (Kiryat-Ono, Israel) have also acceped positions at CitiGroup in London.
  • Murat Ilgen (Istanbul, Turkey) has accepted a position at Analysis Group in Menlo Park, CA, Subechya Shrestha (Kathmandu, Nepal) has accepted a position in the San Francisco office and Andrew Mykletun (Oslo, Norway) is working in the Boston office.
  • Joe Parilla (St. Paul, MN) accepted a job at Optimal Solution Group in Washington DC.
  • Kaitlyn Orr (Shawnee Mission, Kansas) and Katarina Hruba (Topolcany, Slovakia) both have accepted a position at Delloite Consulting in Minneapolis, MN.
  • Adam Kent (Madison, WI) has accepted a position at The Urban Instititute in the Center on Labor, Human Services and Population in Washington DC.
  • Kira Vanderwert (St. Paul, MN) has accepted a position at Clifton Investment Accounts in Minneapolis, MN.
  • Jun Sasaki (Kyoto, Japan) has accepted a position at Merrill Lynch in Tokyo and Andrey Russinov (Almaty, Kazakhstan) also accepted a position in the London office.
  • Disa Sheqem (Amman, Jordan) has accepted a position at 3M in St. Paul, MN.
  • Katherine Lim (Shoreview, MN) has accepted a position at the Urban Institue, Tax Policy Center in Washington DC.
  • Bunsake Itamara (Tokyo, Japan) has accepted a position at Secured Capital in Japan.
  • Melissa French (Cambridge, MN) has accepted a position at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis, MN.

 

2007 -

  • Trevor Jepma (Sauk Rapids, MN) has accepted a position at SC Johnson as an Assistant Brand Manager in Wisconsin.
  • Usman Saleem (Bahawalpur, Pakistan) has accepted a position at Bank of America in Chicago.
  • Anirudh Seth (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) has accepted a position at Progressive Insurance in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Diago Dieye (Dakar, Senegal) accepted a position at Credit Suisse in NYC in investment banking.
  • Elizabeth Ho (Wisconsin Rapids, WI) is attending Boston University of Law School.
  • Jamie Jerden (Overland Park, KS) and Abigail Robbins ( Iowa City, IA) both accepted positions at Target Corp. in Minneapolis.
  • Na Yeon Oh (Seoul, Korea) accepted a position at Prophet Market Consulting in NYC.
  • Dylan Keith (Solidiers Grove, W), Achal Sondhi (New Delhi, India) and Siddharth Akali (Mumbi, India) have all accepted positions at ICF International in Washington D.C.
  • Marija Krgovic (Podgorica, Yugoslavia) accepted a position at JPMorgan in San Francisco.
  • Brendan Pierpont (Santa Fe, New Mexico) has accepted a position at Analysis Group in San Francisco, CA and Andi Luka (Librazhd, Albania) accepted a position in the Boston office.
  • Laura Gudmundson (Mountain, North Dakota) accepted a position at RBC Dain Rauscher in Minneapolis.
  • Ben Tiede (Madison, CT) accepted a position at Macquarie Holdings in NYC.

2006 -

  • Astghik Poladyan (Yerevan, Armenia) has accepted a position at 3M in St. Paul, Mn.
  • Denitza Batchvarova (Pleven, Bulgaria) and Hashaam Sheikh (Lahore, Pakistan) both have accepted positions at Citigroup in NY as analysts.
  • Margarit Ivanov (Pleven, Bulgaria) has accepted a position at TD Securities in NYC.
  • Dorothe Singer (Marutoberdorf, Germany) attends Universiteit van Tilburg in the Netherlands in the M. Phil program in Economics.
  • Hazem Zureiqat (Amman, Jordan) is pursuing a Ph.D. in civil engineering at MIT.
  • Niranjan Arulpragasam (Colombo, Sri Lanka) has accepted a position at Merrill Lynch in New York. Saad Khan (Karachi, Pakistan) has accepted a postion at Merrill Lynch in San Francisco in the Health Group. Cara Goff (Amherst, MA) has accepted a position for the Merrill Lynch office in London.
  • Brendon Bosman (Minneapolis, MN) accepted a position at Bank of America in Chicago, IL, Terrance Robinson-Wilson (Chicago, IL) has accepted a position at Bank of America in Chicago and Nikolay Dinev (Sofia, Bulgaria) also accepted a position at Bank of America in NY.
  • Yana Mihaleva (Bulgaria) attends the University of Michigan, School of Law and Joseph Schultz (Bloomington, MN) attends Case Western Reserve University Law School.
  • Deniz Nizam (Nicosia, Cyprus) accepted a position at Progressive Insurance as an Associate Analyst in Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Heber Ramos de Freitas (Brasilia, Brazil) accepted a position at Morgan Stanley in London.
  • Alex Zweber (Fairbault, MN) accepted a position at Clifton Group in Minneapolis as an Investment Analyst.
  • Andrew Wissler (Fairfax, Virginia) accepted a position at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis.
  • Emil Staykov (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) accepted a positon with Mackenzie in NY.

 

2005 -

  • Victor Abakarov (Kerch, Ukraine) has accepted an analyst position for the investment banking firm Credit Suisse First Boston, in New York. Neerav Mathur Osaka, Japan has also accepted an analyst postion at Credit Suisse Bostin in Toyko.
  • Nathaniel Abbott (Boulder, Colorado) has accepted a position in investment banking for JPMorgan in New York City.
  • Ai Li Ang (Penang, Malaysia) has accepted a position as a business analyst at Deloitte and Touche, LLP in Chicago and Jan Humaj (Partizanske, Slovakia) also accepted a postion with Deloitte and Touche in Bratislava, Slovenia.
  • Veselin Atanasov (Asenovgrad, Bulgaria), Carlos Gonzalez Contreras (Guatemala City, Guatemala), and Matija Vodopivec (Ljubljana, Slovenia) have all accepted positions as research analyst's with Analysis Group in Boston.
  • Rahul Barua (Delhi, India) accepted a position at Bank of America Securties in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  • Sheharyar Bokhari (Karachi, Pakistan) is attending Tufts University in Boston pursuing a master's in economics.
  • Rohini D'Silva (Bombay, India) accepted a position as assistant national bank examiner at the Office of The Comptroller of Currency Minneapolis.
  • Andrew Goodman-Bacon (Ann Arbor, Michigan) has accepted a position as a research analyst with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  • Christina Hegstrum (North Oaks, Minnesota) has accepted a position in the underwriting department at St. Paul Travelers.
  • Marius Hansen (Sandefjord, Norway) has accepted a position as a financial analyst at Ovations in Minneapolis.
  • Eeshani Kandpal (Pondicherry, India) is attending the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign in the Ph.D. program in agricultural and consumer economics.
  • Sherali Tareen (Queta, Pakistan) is attending Duke University pursuing a Ph.D. in Religious Studies.
  • Katherine Giroux (Champlin, Minnesota) is interning as a project analyst with UBS Investment Bank in London and Kostadin Krastev is also working at UBS Investment Bank in New York City as a business analyst.

    2004 -

  • Gaurav Ahluwalia (New Delhi, India) is working as an analyst position with Morgan Stanley in New York.
  • Irina Asmolova (Moscow, Russia) is working with Deloitte and Touche, LLP.
  • Sarah Crangle (Piedmont, California) is attending law school at the University of Minnesota.
  • Firuz Kamalov (Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Statistics at the University of Minnesota.
  • Alex Koles (Topeka, Kansas)is working in a investment banking position with Merrill Lynch.
  • Arthur Latz-Hall (St. Paul, Minnesota) is working as a financial analyst with 3M.
  • Ivan Merev (Bulgaria) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at the University of Minnesota.
  • Sarah Oviatt (Boulder, Colorado) is attending the Colorado School of Law in Boulder.
  • Tomas Peshkatari (Tirana, Albania) is working as a analyst for the investment banking firm Credit Suisse First Boston, in New York.
  • Adugna Tolosa (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is working with MetLife Insurance.

 

2003 -

  • Adam Gailey (Lincoln, MA) is pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.
  • Khaled Habayeb (Amman, Jordan) works as an investment banker for JPMorgan in New York City.
  • Peter Hamburge (St. Paul, MN) works as a risk consultant for Marsh USA in Minneapolis.
  • Ruchira Jha (Delhi, India) is attending Harvard Medical School.
  • Gregory Klancher (Stillwater, MN) works for the Capital Markets group at Piper Jaffray in Minneapolis.
  • Ivan London (Norman, OK) is attending the Colorado School of Mines to study Mineral Economics.
  • Kagabo Ngiruwonsanga (Rwanda) works for Liberty Mutual as an actuarial analyst in Boston.
  • Odysseas Odysseos (Cyprus) is attending City University, London and study Business Systems Analysis and Design.
  • Kestutis Puckorius (Lithuania) works as a Research Analyst with Analysis Group in Boston.
  • Melody Sakazaki (Tokyo, Japan) attends the Robert M. LaFolette School of Public Affairs at the Universtiy of Wisconsin-Madison.

2002 -

  • Diep Ngoc Phan is pursuing a Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Jim Sallee (Bloomington, Illinois) is pursuing his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Michigan.
  • Bimbika Sijapati (Kathmandu, Nepal) is a PH.D. Candidate in Developemnt Studies, London School of Economics.

To our wonderful alumni, if your information is missing or inaccurate please contact us at economics@macalester.edu. We'd love to know where you are and what you're up to!

 

 


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